UC San Diego, a giant in science, is struggling with freshmen who can’t do basic math

A campus report cites many factors, including the impact of COVID and higher admissions from under-resourced schools.

College kids’ math skills worse than ever, California finds — blame our pass-the-buck public schools

America has plenty of talented people — but a UC San Diego study finds our schools are failing to educate them. And everyone ...
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High GPAs And Test Optional Mask Poor Math Skills At College

Key Points ・UC San Diego’s own faculty report shows a thirtyfold jump since 2020 in freshmen arriving with math skills below the middle-school level, raising concerns about admissions practices and ...
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A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...
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Finally, a modular, tested, functional solution to the problem known for centuries to mathematicians as "FizzBuzz".

There's a live demo on TonicDev where you can witness the raw rower of fizzbuzz-cli and also experiment with fizzbuzzify, the micropackage that powers the results of fizzbuzz-cli. First, make sure you ...